PowerShell Job Trends in Edinburgh

Windows PowerShell
Scotland > Edinburgh

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Edinburgh requiring PowerShell skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 4 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 58 67 62
Rank change year-on-year +9 -5 +17
Permanent jobs citing PowerShell 9 7 27
As % of all permanent jobs in Edinburgh 0.86% 0.84% 2.14%
As % of the Programming Languages category 5.96% 3.13% 6.14%
Number of salaries quoted 6 6 19
10th Percentile - £51,068 £49,000
25th Percentile £47,500 £51,426 £53,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,250 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -21.15% +8.33% -
75th Percentile £57,500 £79,375 £87,500
90th Percentile £71,875 £80,000 £98,474
Scotland median annual salary £52,500 £40,000 £54,000
% change year-on-year +31.25% -25.93% -1.82%

All Programming Languages
Edinburgh

PowerShell falls under the Programming Languages category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring coding skills in Edinburgh.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 151 224 440
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Edinburgh 14.37% 26.83% 34.81%
Number of salaries quoted 105 146 342
10th Percentile £37,371 £37,000 £40,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £46,250 £48,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £57,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% -4.17% -3.61%
75th Percentile £70,000 £80,000 £73,886
90th Percentile £83,000 £98,474 £89,875
Scotland median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% -4.35%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing PowerShell relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh.

PowerShell job vacancy trend in Edinburgh

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Salary Trend in Edinburgh

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing PowerShell.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing PowerShell

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Salary Histogram in Edinburgh

Salary distribution for jobs citing PowerShell in Edinburgh over the 6 months to 4 August 2026.

Salary histogram for PowerShell in Edinburgh

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Edinburgh by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 5 (55.56%) Microsoft Exchange
1 5 (55.56%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 8 (88.89%) Azure
2 7 (77.78%) Microsoft 365
3 4 (44.44%) Entra ID
4 3 (33.33%) Microsoft Copilot
4 3 (33.33%) OneDrive
4 3 (33.33%) Power Automate
4 3 (33.33%) Power Platform
4 3 (33.33%) SaaS
5 2 (22.22%) Azure Sentinel
6 1 (11.11%) GitHub
6 1 (11.11%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (11.11%) Google Workspace
Communications & Networking
1 3 (33.33%) Broadband
2 1 (11.11%) DHCP
2 1 (11.11%) DNS
2 1 (11.11%) Firewall
2 1 (11.11%) LAN
2 1 (11.11%) TCP/IP
2 1 (11.11%) VPN
2 1 (11.11%) WAN
Development Applications
1 1 (11.11%) Jenkins
1 1 (11.11%) JIRA
General
1 1 (11.11%) Finance
1 1 (11.11%) Games
1 1 (11.11%) Organisational Skills
1 1 (11.11%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (33.33%) Consultant
1 3 (33.33%) Solutions Consultant
2 2 (22.22%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Applications Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Cloud Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Cloud Network Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Developer
3 1 (11.11%) IAM Developer
3 1 (11.11%) Lead
3 1 (11.11%) Network Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Security Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Senior
3 1 (11.11%) Senior Developer
3 1 (11.11%) Service Desk Team Leader
3 1 (11.11%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (33.33%) Microsoft Graph
2 1 (11.11%) GraphQL
2 1 (11.11%) LDAP
2 1 (11.11%) OAuth
2 1 (11.11%) OpenID
2 1 (11.11%) REST
2 1 (11.11%) SAML
2 1 (11.11%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 2 (22.22%) Hybrid Cloud
1 2 (22.22%) Onboarding
1 2 (22.22%) Replication
2 1 (11.11%) Cyber Threat
2 1 (11.11%) Cyberattack
Operating Systems
1 3 (33.33%) Windows
2 2 (22.22%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (55.56%) Collaborative Culture
2 3 (33.33%) Employee Productivity
2 3 (33.33%) Task Automation
3 2 (22.22%) Client Onboarding
3 2 (22.22%) Disaster Recovery
3 2 (22.22%) Identity Access Management
3 2 (22.22%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 2 (22.22%) ITIL
3 2 (22.22%) Mentoring
3 2 (22.22%) Roadmaps
4 1 (11.11%) Application Security
4 1 (11.11%) Continuous Improvement
4 1 (11.11%) Penetration Testing
4 1 (11.11%) Programme Delivery
4 1 (11.11%) Regulatory Compliance
4 1 (11.11%) Security Testing
4 1 (11.11%) Strategic Roadmap
4 1 (11.11%) Tech Ops
4 1 (11.11%) Technology Transformation
4 1 (11.11%) Threat Modelling
Programming Languages
1 2 (22.22%) Bash
2 1 (11.11%) Python
2 1 (11.11%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (55.56%) Microsoft Certification
2 3 (33.33%) Azure Certification
3 1 (11.11%) CISSP
3 1 (11.11%) CREST Certified
3 1 (11.11%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (11.11%) Accessibility
1 1 (11.11%) NCSC
1 1 (11.11%) NIST
System Software
1 2 (22.22%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 4 (44.44%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 7 (77.78%) Microsoft
2 3 (33.33%) Cisco
2 3 (33.33%) Meraki
3 2 (22.22%) Veeam